The Purrfect Murder (Mrs. Murphy Mysteries)
by Rita Mae Brown
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Author: Rita Mae BrownEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-01-29
ISBN: 0553803654
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Bantam
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Book Review: fantastic regional mystery
Summary: 5 Stars
The town of Crozet, Virginia is growing rapidly with the upper crust building McMansions trying to outdo each other. "Harry" Haristeen is not interested in material wealth having remarried the love of her life and is doing work she loves by creating a winery. Murder once again hits the people of Crozet hard when their beloved doctor William Wylde is murdered by a sniper's bullet. Most people think it was a fanatic who wanted to stop the doctor from performing abortions. The police think that the killer shot the physician from a roof across the street but the only thing on the roof on a Virginia Slim's cigarette butt.
The upper crust of Crozet is attending a charity gala when a scream rings out. Deputy Cynthia Cooper sees Carla Paulson murdered; her throat cut and the architect who is building her house Tazio Chappars is standing over the body with a knife in her hand. Harry's intuition tells her that the woman is innocent despite the evidence. "Harry's cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter and her corgi Tee Tucker find out from the pack rats that live in the building where the gala was held that they found a Virginia Slim butt. Harry intends to find out who the real killer is so an innocent woman can regain her freedom even if it puts her in danger.
Crozet residents (two and four legged) are shook up by a big crime wave. Someone is blackmailing the women who had abortions and a building inspector seems shady to Harry even if she has no proof. As long time friends know her animal friends talk to each other and with other species enabling them to help in her investigation. This provides an air of enchantment to the storyline. Readers will thoroughly enjoy this magical tale where suspects abound despite the arrest of the most likely killer. Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown have written a fantastic regional mystery.
Harriet Klausner
Summary of The Purrfect Murder (Mrs. Murphy Mysteries)
New York Times bestselling authors Rita Mae Brown and her feline partner, Sneaky Pie Brown, return with a new mystery starring Mary Minor ?Harry? Haristeen, the sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and corgi Tee Tucker. But are they any match for a killer who?s made an entire town suspect by committing?Autumn has arrived in cozy Crozet, Virginia, and that means the town?s inhabitants are hard at work in home and garden preparing for winter. Harry is planning to harvest her first crop of Petit Manseng grapes along with her beloved sunflowers. Meanwhile, her recent marriage to Fair and her friendship with Deputy Cynthia Cooper, who?s rented nearby Blair Farm, are flourishing. But even when peace descends on the idyllic countryside, murder is lurking.
Mrs. Carla Paulson is one of the diamond-encrusted ?come-here? set who has descended on Crozet with plenty of wealth and no feeling for country ways. She?s determined to make her new house the envy of all her well-heeled friends?and enemies?and she?s hired architect Tazio Chappers to build it.
From the start, the project?and Mrs. Paulson?turns into a major headache relieved only by a side trip to study Thomas Jefferson?s extraordinary summer home at Poplar Forest. Harry couldn?t foresee that a day later Mrs. Paulson would be found stabbed to death at a gala fund-raiser with Harry?s friend, Tazio Chappers, standing over her, holding the knife.
Now Harry must solve what seems to everyone else an open-and-shut case. Every other human, that is. For her four-legged friends see it Harry?s way. But will they have to choose between catching the purrfect killer or saving Harry?
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